Fall Antique Weekend 2012

Wow, this week flew....but, our trip was wonderful! It was such a good time of antiquing, family fun, and fellowship with some of our extended family. The first day antiquing was a bit warm, but then our second day was cloudy and rainy, which is always kind of fun I think. Rain boots are a must for Antique Weekend in both spring and fall because it can get pretty muddy if it rains! We didn't have any luck finding the one big thing we were looking for (a dresser) but lots of cool little stuff.

We found some neat things for Boo including this little turquoise cowgirl outfit, an adorable Mary Poppins book, and a beautifully colored South Dakota pennant. She loves learning about U.S. presidents, but especially Lincoln and Washington, so this was a fun find!

Boo and I dug through lots of containers to find all these adorable accents for her vintage dollhouse. Such cuteness! I especially love the rug and wooden stool in the back.

We got this set of Chinese lanterns from a lady whose booth we always love. The colors are so bright and lovely, and I'm always looking for fun random party decor to add to my collection!

These little maps are from a 1955 German newspaper and are uber COOL. We bought 2 of our favorite cities we've visited - Paris and London - and then our favorite country - Italy. The illustrations are just adorable and we're going to frame them for Boo's room.

These pieces are all from Guatemala - cute little bags, a basket, and a table runner...I so love prints and colors like these. We also bought a larger version of the cool basket in the back.

Boo also picked out this pretty Frida Kahlo frame (she recently studied her in one of her art classes), a little doll for her shadowbox, metal plates/bowls for outside play, and a little Guatemalan purse. She loves antiquing and searching to find cool stuff, just like her mama! So cute.

This was another cool fabric piece from Guatemala, along with some adorably decorated bottle brush trees. Loved the colors and they're always so expensive online, so I was super excited about these.

Other finds include a gorgeous colorful kimono, some school stuff, and an original polly pocket little house and people (the teeny tiny ones that actually fit in your pocket, which my sisters and I had when we were little)! Anyway, that's it...fun stuff though!

We stayed with some family and got to visit others, and we so loved spending time with all of them. Family is just the best! One of our trip days we took Boo around our alma mater's campus (Texas A&M)...she's been there before but it's been awhile and didn't remember. It was fun showing her mom's favorite studying (nap) spot, dad's old studio, our favorite places to eat, and just special little places around campus/town. BCS has grown and changed quite a bit, but Aggies are still some of friendliest people you could ever meet! It was cool to see all the new modern buildings on campus along with some good green initiatives - like the neat water bottle fillers on top of the water fountains (have you seen those?), solar composters, recycling everywhere, and so forth.

It was such a great trip but I was so happy to walk into our nest and "be home". I so love my home and filling it was things we love (like the above) and making it a special place for my family. I truly am a blessed gal. Have a great weekend!

Away we go!

We are off on an adventure to here, one of our favorite places - it's a magical land called "Antique Weekend" with acres and acres of beautiful antiques and amazing vintage finds! It's awesome. Seriously. And we love it. And I can't wait to be there. We also get to go here, another fave of ours, and see some of our favorite people. It's going to be all kinds of wonderful! We have a short list of things to look for antiquing but we always find random cool things along the way - wish us luck! I will probably IG some neat things we find too if you want to follow.

Be back soon to show you what we found...Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

More of this!

This weekend we're off doing more of this...












A completely different season and area but we're hoping to have as much fun as we did back in May! Have a great weekend.

Antique Weekend 2010

SO while our Antique Weekend trip was incredibly fun, it wasn't incredibly purchase-filled...which is completely fine, just different for us :). Anyway, everything we bought is in the above shot and it's all vintage Christmas decor. In includes a bigger reindeer to go with the two smaller red ones we got last time, two beautiful tiny caroler angels that match one I scored on Etsy last year, three different sized nativity scenes that I love, an adorable 1940's "ABC" Christmas book, and a cool hot pink bottle brush wreath. That's all folks! Cute stuff though, and again, we had a blast. I would really recommend if any of you ever plan on attending Antique Weekend to go to the first weekend ("Preview") as we normally do because we definitely noticed a difference in the amount of sellers and inventory, as well as the traffic. :)

Hope you have a wonderful weekend my friends!

These two...

I had SUCH fun with them on our little weekend trip. They are just the silliest, funniest, sweetest, most beautiful and best things ever! They are so ridiculously cute together too and bring me such immense joy. I absolutely love spending time with them and couldn't ask for anything more. I am one blessed girl.

Antique Weekend 2009

Hello! This weekend we're finally off at Antique Weekend and we're beyond excited!!! We all CANNOT wait to get there. It's such a mellow time for us that we really enjoy and after not going in the spring, I'm itching like crazy to get there and do some fun searching. I took ALOT of pics of last fall's trip finds but never did a post on them. I thought I'd do my computer a favor and do one so all of the excess find photos could finally be deleted :). So without further adieu, here they are...

We scored four of these cool vintage chairs that I absolutely adore! My Love remembers sitting in chairs exactly like these at elementary school. They are super sturdy and strong.


These are vintage stainless steel meal trays from an old jail outside of San Antonio...Lovebug loves getting meals and snacks on these.


This is a cool big globe we found for a complete steal and then the little one was just plain adorable. Apparently I like small globes. OH and with these vintage Nancy Drews and a few other copies I found on Etsy/Ebay I was finally able to complete my childhood collection that somehow had missing volumes. I absolutely adore the original Nancy Drew series and hope Lovebug does too someday :). I'd love to re-read them all right now!


I fell in love with this plastic Christmas village set...it's so precious. My Love did a lovely display on our mantle last Christmas with it that we all adored.


Just some other vintage holiday cuties we found for our advent tree and other random display. I do so love vintage Christmas ornaments and decor!


Apparently I really like these little Asian boxes too as it's the second one I've bought.


I adore matryoshka dolls as well and found these two adorable ones. One was a steal and the other one really wasn't. :) Anyhoo, I have fond memories of some our babysitter brought back from Russia when I was little. Lovebug LOVES these too...she plays with the "steal" set.


Oh my goodness, I love this bowl! The colors and design are just beautiful!!! I immediately grabbed it knowing it was mine without even looking at the tag. Thank goodness, it was completely reasonable. :)


We were lucky enough to inherit much of my childhood vintage Fisher Price Little People stuff and Lovebug (and I) LOVE to play with it all. So we're always on the lookout for pieces we don't have and found quite a few last fall! Hopefully there will be more this year too...


Here is a little collection of finds...an adorable painted cross, vintage embroidered fabric, an embroidered Christmas table runner, and some beautiful pillows from Guatemala. I'm a sucker for bright colors and gorgeous embroidery.


Last but not least is this absolutely adorable little plastic vase and vintage postcard. I fell in love with the colors in both and loved the fishing village scene.


Well those were our 2009 fall finds...hopefully we're finding fun stuff right now on our 2010 trip! Be back soon. Have a great weekend.

2009 Beach Trip

We leave for the beach soon and we're all just ecstatic! We didn't think we were going to be able to go this year which makes it all the more exciting now that we are. We absolutely adore the beach! I know I know, most people do. It's just a really special place for my Love and I. So we're just excited beyond words to get there and I know Lovebug is going to love it even more than she did last year.

Speaking of last year, I was recently looking at pictures from our 2009 trip and realized I never posted any. SO I thought I'd reminisce a bit and share some (ok, MANY) with you! Gosh, Lovebug looks so young in all of these...














Well, that was our 2009 trip! SOOOO fun and such wonderful memories made as it was our first family trip with just the three of us. I'll never forget it! I know our 2010 trip is going to amazing too though and I CANNOT wait.

I must run now and get working on some other things to get us ready. We have LOTS to do before we leave. With our lifestyle, there is SO MUCH planning regarding food and whatnot. I'm not complaining though because it's fun and worth it! Anywhoo, I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your week. I have a little video that's been going around that I'm going to share later.

Be back soon!

Some serious antiquing

Not really...just some serious fun! Look at one of my intense partners above though who definitely had her eye (and hand) on those shelves :). Well it really was another wonderful Antique Weekend trip! It was just a blast walking around with my two Loves trying to find vintage treasures. However, things were pretty crazy the weekend we left with a very dear friend's wedding, my sister and her husband's arrival home from South Korea (YEA!!), a family garage sale, and THEN all the getting ready that a trip requires. But we somehow made it to everything and got nearly everything done and then were finally off. We stayed with some cousins of mine whom were so hospitable, laid back, and just wonderful. I haven't been able to take any shots of our finds yet but I will SOON. We were able to find some lovelies I think though! In the meantime, I thought I'd share some pictures from our trip.


The weather treated us pretty well minus the first day which was SOOOO incredibly hot!! Then it rained a bit which was actually nice, except it made some areas pretty darn muddy so thank goodness for rain boots! They tend to be a necessity for both our spring and fall trips.


Lovebug had a great time too! She loved being outside and getting to see lots of people most of the day. She really loved all of our stops in more open areas where she got to wander about and explore (and run). I just wish one of the vendors or the event organizer would put a little playset somewhere on one of the MANY acres...oh AND a parenting tent/station for breastfeeding, naps, changing, etc. Now that would be awesome!


This is our favorite spot! It's where we picnic, breastfeed, rest, play, nap, and so forth. It's also right next to one of our favorite vendors which works out pretty well. Look at these two sweeties...they really make my heart just melt!


During our trip we were also able to visit our alma mater campus which was fun. We showed Lovebug some of the main sights and just reminisced. She wasn't as into it as we were :) but she had a good time running around and seeing all of the "big kids".


It was funny seeing the difference in the students though! Of course everyone looked SO young, but they all had earphones on and were listening to music and texting. There didn't seem to be as much interaction going on like what we remembered when we were there, which was interesting...


It really was a pretty relaxing trip but things started right back up as soon as we got home! We had another family garage sale and have been busy helping to pack up my parent's old longtime house, amongst other stuff around our own nest. Last weekend was yet another busy one as well but I'll share more on that later.

Hope everyone has had a great week!